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good VIDEO GAMES AND good LEARNING . James Paul Gee Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706. I played my first VIDEO game four years ago when my six-year-old son Sam was playing Pajama Sam: No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside. In Pajama Sam, child super-hero Sam mine and the virtual one goes off to the Land of Darkness to find and capture Darkness in a lunch pail and thereby alleviate fear of the dark. Darkness turns out to be a big lonely softie who just needs a playmate. I wanted to play the game so I could support Sam's problem solving. Though Pajama Sam is not an educational game , it is replete with the types of problems psychologists study when they study thinking and LEARNING . When I saw how well the game held Sam's attention, I wondered what sort of beast a more mature VIDEO game might be. I went to a store and arbitrarily picked a game, The New Adventures of the Time Machine perhaps, it was not so arbitrary, as I was undoubtedly reassured by the association with H.
GOOD VIDEO GAMES AND GOOD LEARNING James Paul Gee Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706 jgee@education.wisc.edu
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